The Bases of SpeechHarper & Brothers, 1946 - 610 pages |
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Page 204
... less educated city dwellers , some less educated Southerners , and the Canadian and Louisiana French substitute [ d ] for [ ð ] , especially in the commoner words such as the definite article , the pronouns , etc. All these need much ...
... less educated city dwellers , some less educated Southerners , and the Canadian and Louisiana French substitute [ d ] for [ ð ] , especially in the commoner words such as the definite article , the pronouns , etc. All these need much ...
Page 527
... less and less likelihood of their having sufficient community of reference to enable one to grasp readily the meaning of the other . When phrases are used to refer to some process or practice , this com- munity of reference is still ...
... less and less likelihood of their having sufficient community of reference to enable one to grasp readily the meaning of the other . When phrases are used to refer to some process or practice , this com- munity of reference is still ...
Page 532
... less and less courage to take the final step . " Illustrative of degeneration in the meaning of words is hussy , which is descended directly from housewife , an entirely respectable appellation . Many words have within the past few ...
... less and less courage to take the final step . " Illustrative of degeneration in the meaning of words is hussy , which is descended directly from housewife , an entirely respectable appellation . Many words have within the past few ...
Contents
The Social Basis of Speech I | 1 |
The Psychological Basis of Speech | 340 |
The Genetic Basis of Speech | 419 |
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abdominal action American amplitude Appleton-Century Company articulation arytenoid attitudes audience axons basilar membrane become behavior body breath Broca's area called cartilage cerebrum Collect other examples communication complete consonant curve cycles decibels dialect diphthong effect emotional English Epiglottis Exercise fact fibers Figure frequency function human hyoid bone Ibid individual intensity John Samuel Kenyon Journal of Speech language larynx length linguistic listeners Macmillan Company means membrane motives movement muscles nasal nerve neurons object organs overtones person pharynx phonetic pitch posterior pressure pronounced pronunciation Psychology purpose reason reference relation response result ribs social sound waves speaker speaking spinal stimulus stressed syllables Substitution symbols theory things thinking thorax thyroid cartilage timbre tion tone tongue tube tympanic membrane unstressed utterance velum vibration vocal bands vocal folds voice vowel words spelled York